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Past Edinburgh Event: VOL 33

VOL 33

April 22, 2016

@
Epworth Hall

Pecha Kucha Edinburgh: Curated by Gordon Duffy and sponsored by Studio DuB. Pecha Kucha Edinburgh V.33 will be held at the Epworth Hall, 25 Nicolson Square, Edinburgh EH8 9BX. Pecha Kucha Edinburgh gratefully acknowledges the support of New Media Scotland and The Festival of Architecture, also Will Waites for the audio and and John Pottage for helping edit.

For tickets see venue weblink below.

PRESENTATIONS FROM THIS EVENT

If you are not an astrophysicist or a global economist a trillion is an abstract number, too big to grasp. How big is it? What does it buy? In my talk I will be comparing and contrasting what a trillion is worth. Looking at monetary value globally. How serious is national debt? How much would it cost to buy Wales? If you had enough money could you buy a unicorn? Or a house in Mayfair? These questions will be probed.

Annie Griffin is an Edinburgh based filmmaker. Originally from the US, she moved to the UK as a student. She began her career as an actress in fringe theatre, frequently performing at the Edinburgh Festival. She formed her own production company in the 90s, and moved to Scotland. Her work includes The Book Group for Channel 4 and the feature film Festival. In 1992 she was fortunate to see Prince in concert at Earls Court on the Diamonds and Pearls tour.

HERE+NOW is a landscape architecture studio specialised in co-design. We deliberately combine engagement and design processes to integrate stakeholders and help realise more meaningful places. We have developed a range of innovative tools and techniques to help put people at the heart of design in the built environment. We constantly iterate and evolve these tools, testing their application in different contexts and sharing our findings. We use film, photography, events and publications to visually capture, communicate and share this holistic design process and its outcomes with communities and decision makers alike. Feeding back to those who have input into a project and feeding forward our learnings to share with the wider industry. User-centred design, but for landscape architecture.

Robert Powell has long been interested in encyclopaedic and organisational forms. His practice explores representations of reality that are universal, yet constantly subverted as they are enmeshed in a web of cultural and personal memory, of national histories and myths, always with the covering cherub of art history looming above. This interest was also exemplified his recent solo exhibition in Quebec City entitled ‘A Universal History of Iniquity’, which the artist has described as ‘a universal history viewed through the prism of Borges’ Aleph relocated to a Stockbridge basement.’

Mike Wilson is a writer and website publisher. A co-owner of the media resources and training website, www.allmediascotland.com, he is a former sports writer - including with The Sunday Times Scotland, FourFourTwo magazine and for the Scottish Football Association. He is author of three books about football and is interested in far too much for his own good, including architecture (not that he necessarily knows what an architrave is).